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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
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Divugnance
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.
Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.
Dearthquirk
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: derth-kwirk
Sentence: I really will have to leave him, she thought, as he scratchd his arse for the third time in as many minutes
Etymology: dearth = lack of appeal (my definition, so there!) and quirk.
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COMMENTS:
ummm, could you use it in a sentence? - Alchemist, 2007-02-15: 22:41:00
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Endearmental
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: enn deeer ment ahl
Sentence: his enderment finally drove her endearmental. She put the bear trap in her (large)Armani bag, before heading out to the disco. "Tonight will be the last time he grabs his crotch when they play Michael Jackson" she promised herself,
Etymology: endearment mental
Agitrait
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: aj/i/treyt
Sentence: His nose-picking became a major agitrait for his girlfriend.
Etymology: agitate + trait
Jirkfectation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: jirk fek tay shun
Sentence: Why did Lacey ever think that George's habit of using chauvinistic terms of endearment was cute? His familiarity had seemed quaint when he called her Cutie or Babe or Toots or Doll. She was beginning to think he could not remember her actual first name. His jirkfectation was equally applied to all women he encountered. But he went too far in calling the Mother Superior of the local convent, Hottie. Lacey reckoned his punishment in Hell would be a term of enfearment.
Etymology: Jerk (a dull stupid fatuous person) & Irk (to irritate or vex)& Affectation (a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display)
Captainquirk
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cap/tayn/kwirk
Sentence: Everything was going so well until he pulled a captainquirk over and over and over - time to beam me out Scotty
Etymology: Captain Kirk + quirk
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COMMENTS:
Funny!! I always felt the captain was a bit quirky. - Stevenson0, 2007-02-15: 11:18:00
Quirky - yes - but regular - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 12:12:00
"I'm...getting the feeling...that..I...could be annoying...you" - Alchemist, 2007-02-15: 22:40:00
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Quirkedout
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: qwerked-out
Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.
Etymology: quirk + past tense + out
Tickleme
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'tik-&l-"mE/
Sentence: While the toddler quickly learned that affecting a lisp was a good way to get adults to do what she wanted, it wasn't until long after it started having the opposite effect that she realized it for the tickleme it was.
Etymology: As in the "Tickle-me Elmo" doll. Some (not all) may have found it once cute, but no talking toy with less than a 50-sentence vocabulary can help but become annoying after awhile.
Annoyhilate
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ənoiəlāt
Sentence: Genny really didn*t know how break up with Peter, so she set out to annoyhilate their relationship. He was able to tolerate the **dainties** hanging in the shower and the load of laundry where she **accidently** washed all his whites with her new red blouse. He could even grin and bear it when she picked her teeth in public. What finally put it over the edge and sent him packing was her laugh/snort. And she hadn*t even planned that one.
Etymology: annoy [irritate (someone); make (someone) a little angry] + annihilate [destroy utterly; obliterate]
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COMMENTS:
good word...well describes all those annoyhellations! - Nosila, 2009-09-09: 14:39:00
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Idiotsyncrasy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: id eeeot sin kras ee
Sentence: she was amazed at how quickly his idiosyncrasies became idiotsyncrasies in the morning light,
Etymology: idiot + syncrasy
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.